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Characters watching news reports on TV or a computer. This is obnoxious for two reasons: It's a lazy way to spew out a lot of information, and we have to put up with, uh, having to watch a newscast. Show, don't tell and explain!
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Oct 6, 2020 - 10:09 AM
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Mr. Jack
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When men do the blood brothers thing, or need to produce a bit of blood, they don't just nick themselves, they half slice open their hand or arm. I suppose it looks effective, but every time I see it, I'm thinking, that's never going to heal up...& get a Tetanus shot!
Or in The Thing, during the "blood test" scene, where every character has their blood taken by creating a big, gaping cut right on the end of their thumb. Couldn't they have been cut somewhere that wouldn't impair their hand dexterity in the middle of an alien invasion? Anyone who's ever cut themselves on one of their fingers know what a literal and figurative pain it is when, say, trying to type on a keyboard, or even pick something up efficiently.
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...a character places a small object in another character's hand, and then folds their fingers over the object, just so that character can open their hand to reveal said object to the audience? Has anyone ever done this in real life?
Just saw exactly this in Maze Runner. 
Straight from the trainee director's manual i think
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The ghosts in a haunted house (The Haunting) are visible to us the audience (and are terrifying looking) but always stay out of visual range (usually behind and following) of the person walking around the house. It's hard to be frightened of the ghost if it always stays behind you.
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When villains/thieves abandon their getaway van and overalls in some underpass and toss a bomb in the back. Ludicrously they are barely a few feet away when they detonate it with a remote in their hand. The shot is always of them walking towards camera with the explosion flames behind them.
No singed clothes, no blast throwing them off their feet or bits of van tearing thru them. So naff.
Would you believe spotted this awful cliche again in 2020 vin diesel film Bloodshot.
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Oct 13, 2020 - 5:32 AM
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Rameau
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It's been mentioned before (but then most of these points have), but hero's getting hit on the head, & knocked unconscious...& it's no big deal. I was just channel surfing & came across an old Saint (with Roger Moore), they're on a train, the waiter (it's obviously not British Rail) gets hit on the back of the head with a blackjack & falls unconscious, & then the Saint gets hit on the back of the head, this time with a hard revolver, & he falls down unconscious, but as always, no harm done (he's as right as rain in the next scene). Poor old Roger Moore, he got knocked out in nearly every episode.
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In action films when hero has a helper against overwhelming odds. In the aftermath of the finale shootout, helper laughs and says "We did it, (insert name of hero here)!" And either gets shot by a wounded villain or suddenly the smile turns to a pained expression and they collapse in hero's arms from an earlier unseen wound, which camera shows or hero hugs them and gets blood on hand.
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Magnets Ram. Sneaky magnets is the answer. 
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